MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator...
areas of mobile systems, as well as a method of calculating delivery vehicles that will preclude the creation of the so-called return potential (stockpiled warheads).The main disputed issue is the planned worldwide deployment of U.S. ballistic missile defense systems. Russia insists that a new treaty must limit a potential deployment of such ABM systems, while the United States has so far refused to make the commitment.
The U.S. has made concessions to Russia with regard to the return potential and control of mobile missile systems, which means that Russia should agree to concessions on the ABM deployment sites, the limitation of which could render it almost useless.
In future, intercontinental ballistic missiles could be intercepted, with a minor degree of probability, in the absence of effective ABM systems based on new physical principles only if the defending side knows the tentative location of the launching sites. But the probability of intercepting
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